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scrimnet
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I though I would share this rather interesting bit of family news with the wider RC audience...I put it in the common room, but thought the Shire would be interested as well...
An old friend from school with whom I have had sporadic contact over the years via "Fiends" Reunited, was researching the history of her house which goes back to pre Domesday.
Apparently, the owner pre Conquest was a certain "Constable" and when she banged his actual name into Google, she came up with pictures of my family and I...(sorry, no names, no pack drill!  )
It appears that she has found my ancestral home in the depths of Northamptonshire, the county in which I and a huge number of my family were born, and to whom I have had my allegiance for aeons....
Of course she was amazed that she actually knew members of the family involved at such an early date of her house...
I am travelling "home" to get a tour soonest!
And as she has French (Norman) ancestry herself, I will be demanding reparations, and the return of land, buildings, goods and chattels to me immediately!
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One more charge and then be dumb,
When the forts of Folly fall,
May the victors when they come
Find my body near the wall.
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seahall
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Well Son I think you may have other things to do tomorrow. 
I would give up the event and take a look at an "ancestral home".
Can't be that many still standing in our County of that date.
Now 340 towns and villages, ummmmm I wonder where, only joking.
Mum
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seahall
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Ummmmmmmmm seems to be possible links in
CLEYLEY, NAVISFORD, HAMFORDSHOE, hundreds.
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seahall
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It is already tomorrow and I have only just come on board.
Well possibly there is Ecton Hall.
You would be near that.
http://www.tenfootclub.org.uk/ecton.htm
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seahall
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Other places could be Ashton, Titchmarsh, Upton, but I think it maybe either
Earls Barton, Great Doddington, Wilby, Mears Ashby all in Hamfordshoe Hundred.
I guess your secret is still safe.
Mum
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seahall
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Well Son it must seem very tiring trying to make sense of a dim wit like me.
I am aware of History at the time of the Domesday Book and onward.
I was making a joke, yet it seems to have back-fired as usual.
I am reading a book by Ben Elton (The First Casualty) which has an awful lot
of words I have not come across before being so un-educated.
Instead of Hubby just telling me what it means he asks me to read back a few
lines and work out its possible meaning. That way I learn I don't have to use a
dictionary as a back up all the time which would be very tiring.
Glad he is more patient and understanding. Oh he thinks I am intelligent too, poor soul.
Have a nice Easter. Mum.
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Old Mother Reilly
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What a lovely coincidence, Scrimnet - I think you should take your "Mum" along for an Easter egg hunt around your ancestral mudhut after manouvers, since she spent so long trying to locate it!
Finding family buildings is a buzz .
Rachel
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Stevens (Devizes, Calne, Wootton Bassett): Hunt (Milford, Lymington, Calne): Moore (Ipswich): Whitlock (Pitton & Farley, Salisbury): Hayter (Whiteparish)
O'Reilly (Sheffield, Flint, L'pool, Co. Longford): Foxton (Sheffield, Northallerton, Thirsk): Spragg (St. Teath, Delabole, Pengelly): Stabb (Berry Pomeroy)
Gore (Newbury, Wigan): Hawkins (Gt Bedwyn, Hungerford): Massey/Wallis (Shalbourne): Mildenhall (Ogbourne): Smith/Lilley (Nhants): Wernham (Chieveley): Woosnam (mid-Wales, Salop): Yaldwyn
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seahall
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Quote from Scriment:
Okay just keep your kisses for swmbo.
Hope you enjoy the visit, I would not dream of going with you.
Hubby always takes me where I need to go.
08.41 to 09.17 I guess that is a long time.
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